release party was great!

[George Ernest Noon]

Mike, & all,
    Perhaps i over reacted to a 'Planet Ubuntu Users' posting - 0625; 
10/19/'07,
by Derek Buranen "Virtual USB Voodoo for Gutsy": I got the impression from
my reading of his posting that USB devices would be inoperative in 
Gutsy, if
I was wrong, or just misunderstood - I am greatly relieved.
    Great time last night -- but i guess i already said that.....
G E Noon

Martin Owens wrote:
> The USB support comes from the linux kernel and isn't so much in the
> power of the gutsy team. saying that though I've _never_ seen a usb
> cipset, usb hub or other usb networking device fail to work since the
> usb standard is extreamly well supported in linux and has been for
> years.
>
> Perhaps there is something percuilur with your motherboard and it's
> usb chipset; if you'd like to send me a hardware profile I could look
> at it but for now you the first person I've heard for a long long time
> (years) to say their usb doesn't work at all.
>
> On 19/10/2007, George Ernest Noon <george.noon at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>>         I thought the release party held last evening
>> at the Globe was great. I didn't really know anyone,
>> as I am still quite new to this OS, and by nature
>> somewhat cautious --- also, I don't tend to be very
>> pushy in making new acquaintances...
>>         This was actually my second foray into an
>> organized group of Linux users -- the first was the
>> Software Freedom Day get  together held in Chinatown,
>> Boston - last month, i believe.
>>         Initially, i would have had my son along, but
>> as he's now assistant manager of the Convenience Store
>> he works at, in Middleboro MA, and someone had called in
>> sick, he had to cover the time himself. Also, a friend from
>> Freetown had originally planned on attending with us,
>> but he had to meet with a couple of roofing contractors,
>> to arrange getting a new roof done on his home.
>>         Was a bit surprised to be probably the oldest one
>> in attendance; I don't know why that should be, after all,
>> I know hat a big time University locale the Boston area is -
>> I guess I just there would be a greater number of longer
>> experienced computer users there - [an attempt to avoid
>> saying oldest, again] looking toward getting free of that
>> ever-so-costly, non-freedom-embracing OS from Redmond WA!
>>         Any way' friends, thanks for a great time -- will be
>> on the lookout for other get togethers, and getting my new
>> computer set up with Ubuntu - first with Feisty, then after
>> I've settled in with it a bit, I'll upgrade to Gutsy; hopefully,
>> by then, it will have support for USB --- otherwise the upgrade
>> would sort of leave me input-crippled: my Kensington Expert
>> Mouse Trackball and Gigaware (dvorak-ized) Keyboard are both
>> USB types, as is a 40GB external portable HD I use. I really don't
>> understand why the Gutsy team would have opted not to support USB.
>> Hopefully, perhaps the reports to that effect are in error.
>> ~~~~George Noon [Whitman MA]
>>
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